In Uruguay, during the pandemic, informal jobs had another reason to fall.

Formal jobs had unemployment insurance (you still had an income even without going to work, because it was closed), for some sectors it lasted more than a year, as activity lowered it was plain suspended for the pandemic. Informal jobs didn’t had that protection. 2021 and 2022 should had big changes there. Now it could be rising again, but probably less than before the pandemic.